Weekly Dev Update #158

Hey y’all, 

This week the Session team diagnosed and fixed a number of bugs in the updated  Session Android conversation screen. The Lokinet team spent most of their time investigating the best way to support a new Mac release using the native network extension APIs, and the core team finished up their last update to the Oxen storage server before the upcoming mandatory Service Node upgrade. 

Oxen Core

• Further work on Service Node payment batching https://github.com/darcys22/loki-core/commits/batch-sn-payments 

• Soft fork support tested and finalised https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1465

• [OxenMQ] Fix a bug in returned messages on dev branch & made new 1.2.6 release https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-mq/pull/42

• [Storage Server] Testing, bug fixes, and miscellaneous updates for the big 2.2.0 update https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-storage-server/pull/433

Lokinet

We spent time tracking down a few last issues ahead of next week’s soft fork, mainly fixing some issues around Lokinet router peer testing. We’re also working on getting the low-level macOS code in good working order (particularly for Big Sur) so that we can bring out a brand new GUI for Lokinet on all our platforms.

• Renamed the github repository to lokinet (instead of loki-network).

• macOS network extension ongoing work https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1688

• Link to jemalloc (by default, when available) for reduced memory usage https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1685

• Fix inefficiency in dealing with already-established connections https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1686

• Various fixes to Lokinet peer testing & lokinetmon reporting https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1693

Session

Session Android 

• Fix line breaks being replaced by quotes in new conversation screen https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/627

• Remove unused code and resources https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/626

• Fix audio player crashing https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/625

• Better failed message handling https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/624

• Proper sentence capitalisation https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/623

• Add conversations screen search feature https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/622

• Fix SOGS media previews and URL handling https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/621

Session iOS

• Fix misplaced scroll button https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/440 

Session Desktop 

• Bulk message retrieval https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1754

• WIP: Performance improvements https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1753

• WIP: Worker thread performance improvements https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1750

• Conversation pinning https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1745

• Only display link preview modal once https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1757  

• Don’t start expire timer before seeing message https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1751

Thanks,   Kee